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Quotes About Conflict

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
~ Seneca the Younger
In war everybody is a prisoner.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
~ Kate Adie
War is the most readily available form of chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.
~ Mark Hatfield
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
~ Livy
We are trying to prevent a third world war.
~ Harry S. Truman
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.
~ Nancy Pelosi
There are no unwinnable wars.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
~ Ronald Reagan
War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.
~ David Wong
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
~ Livy
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
~ Adolf Hitler
Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.
~ Seth
At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
~ Ann Wilson
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.
~ Michael Huffington
In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
~ Chief Joseph
Men have periods; they're called wars.
~ Chuck D
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.
~ Dalai Lama